Europe in Autumn (Europe Series, Book 1) by Dave Hutchinson

By Dave Hutchinson

NO BORDER CAN carry HIM

Rudi is a prepare dinner in a Krakow eating place, but if his boss asks Rudi to aid a cousin break out from the rustic he’s trapped in, a brand new profession – half undercover agent, half people-smuggler – starts off. Following a number of fiscal crises and a devastating flu pandemic, Europe has fractured into numerous tiny countries, duchies, polities and republics. Recruited via the shadowy service provider Les Coureurs des Bois, Rudi is schooled in espionage, but if a coaching challenge to the road, a sovereign country which includes a trans-Europe railway line, is going mistaken, he's arrested and crushed, and Coureur vital needs to test a rescue.

With such a lot of countries to paintings in, and identities to imagine, Rudi is saved busy traveling throughout Europe. but if he's despatched to smuggle a person out of Berlin and unearths a severed head within a locker as an alternative, a conspiracy starts to wind itself round him. With kidnapping, double-crosses and a map that continuously re-draws itself, Europe in Autumn is a technology fiction mystery like no different.

"Does a clone have a soul? " Darling, an astronavigational keep watch over unit and private spouse, achieves sentience and needs to grasp. Now, 2 hundred years and a man-made physique later, he's off looking for a useless artist, a dwelling art, and the forces at the back of a secret that spans the universe.

Han Solo and Leia Organa take middle degree, and wonderful revelations from the prior play a severe position in shaping the long run, because the big apple instances bestselling writer of celebrity Wars: the recent Jedi Order: big name via big name now turns to a vital bankruptcy within the vintage superstar Wars saga.

The deaths of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine, and victory on the conflict of Endor not at all spelled the tip of the Empire. within the aftermath, the recent Republic has confronted a continuing fight to outlive and develop. And now a brand new chance looms: a masterpiece of Alderaanian art--lost in transit after the planet's destruction--has resurfaced at the black marketplace. provided at public sale, it's going to command a good-looking expense . . . yet its maximum price lies within the important mystery it conceals--the key to a code used to speak with New Republic brokers deep undercover in the Empire. Discovery of the most important via Imperial forces may spell definite catastrophe. your best option is recovery--and Han, Leia, Chewbacca,. ..

In 3229 A. D. , human civilization is scattered one of the planets, moons, and asteroids of the sun process. Billions of lives depend upon the know-how derived from the breakthroughs of the best physicist of the age, Arthur Holywelkin. yet within the final years of his existence, Holywelkin committed himself to development a wierd, appealing, and complicated musical tool that he referred to as The Orchestra.

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